Diamond floor polisher



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DIAMOND FLOOR PO LISHER Filed Oct. 12. 1929 INVENTOR, 0 25 674.2 Z: Z721: 50%

7 BY J f ATTORNEY Patented May 19, 1931 UNITED STATES CHARLES R ERICSON,on os Ammssenmosm DIAMOND rnoon romsnnn Application med October 12,1929. Serial No. 399,234.

This invention relates to floor waxing and polishing apparatus of thehand or manual power type. r

It is an object of this invention to provide a combined Waxing ironandpolishing iron whereby the former can be used alone to spread wax and isthen applicable to the.

latter as a weight to facilitate polishingaction by the latter. There isan additional object residing in providing the waxing iron with a handledevice which serves also as the means forpropelling the associatedpolisher. r

A further object is to provide a waxing iron with a novel means forexpressing wax through its effective face from time to time.

Also it is an object to provide a simple,

reliable, durable and easily operative means for clinching an applied,removable smooth-- ing out cloth to the'face of the waxer.

While the principal body elements of the apparatus are herein referredto as irons it is to be understood that they are not to be limited tosuch metal as essential;-the word being only nomial in use.

Other objects, advantages and features, and construction, combinationand details will be made manifest in the ensuing description of theherewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood thatmodifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within thescope, principle and spirit of the invention as it is hereinafter moredirectly claimed and consisting of the disclosure and its substantialequivalents. v

Figure l is a perspective of the polishing apparatus.

Figure 2 is a top plan of the irons.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal, vertical section of the iron parts.

Figure 4 is a transverse section.

Figure 5 is asectional detail of the waxcloth clinch device.

The waxing device includes a flat, diamond-- shaped iron-body 2 of suchsize and thickness as to be effective to smooth out a coating of floorwax. The top of the iron 2 has side walls or beads 3 whichconvergetoward and end near the lips of the diamond body of the iron 2.s V

On the minor axis of the iron are a pair of I vertical bearing lugs 4 inwhich are mounted the trunnions 5 of a yoke 6 carrying a handle pole 7.

In the lugs 4 are also pivoted trunmons 8 of a pair of oppositelydirected V-shaped, clinching frames 9--9 each having convergent sidearms joinedby spring coils l010 whose function is to press the armsagainst the inner faces of the beads 3. Thus when a cloth 50 is drawnacross the bottom face of the iron 2 and tucked over the beads 3, whilethe frames 9 are elevated, then the arms of the frames will clinch downon and bind the is screwed down, from time to time, the wax is expressedthrough the hole 13 to the felt pad '14.

Thus waxed iron 2 is pushed to and fro on the floor by its handle untilthe excess wax is smoothed on in a thin layer.

The-iron 2 is now placed on top of a diamond-shaped floor polishing iron20 having a rim wall 21 one end of which has an inner. overhanging lip22 under which a point of the diamond iron 2 may be thrust andinterlocked as the heel thereof is pressed under a snap spring 24 at theheel of the polisher 20, thus firmly'attaching the handle-carrying iron2 to the polishing iron 20; this having a felt facing 25. The snapspring 24 has a foot part 24 countersunk in the iron 20 and is suitablyfixed thereto; as by a -rivet 24.

What is claimed is: 1. A fioorwaxing iron, having a lozenge shaped body,said iron having a rim head around its top and a set of -V-shaped springgrips whose remote ends are pivoted on the iron rim and whose sides areyieldably con nected by a crotch loop and are 0 rative to clinch asmoothin cloth over the ds.

2. A floor polis er having a rim bead, and a complementary waxer fittingwithin the rim, and means to hold the waxer in place and including arigid rim lip at one end and asmaphookifi'xed to-the polishertattheother and having a guide head adapted to yield under pressure of theWaxer as this is forced into placeonthe Polisher.

CHARLES E. ERIGSON.

